Word: committed
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Colin Powell built on conclusions reached by former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger of the hard-learned, post-Vietnam rules of engagement: commit troops only to clear-cut tasks, with the support of Congress and the public, and then go in with overwhelming force. Now he too is seeking fresher approaches to a changed world that is still riven by conflict. Last week Powell told an audience at Rice University, "New rules are needed; old assumptions need to be rooted out. The kind of warfare we had thought about for 50 years is gone...
...what if Gramm confounds the pols and pundits and captures the nomination? "Well," chuckles Dole, reflecting a view of Gramm shared by many of the Texan's Senate colleagues, "I wouldn't go out and commit suicide. But if I wanted to, I'd probably have to join a long line...
...Powell tapped the G.O.P.'s best organizational minds for advice, pressing experts for details about deadlines, delegate slating, issues and policy questions, staffing and fund raising. Duberstein, a former Reagan chief of staff, reached out to a score of G.O.P. political operatives, asking those who were unaffiliated not to commit to any other campaign, even inviting those who had committed to stay loose...
...episode, titled "Paranoia," a student at a fictitious New York college stabbed her roommate and tried to commit suicide. Interrupted by police, she was convicted of the murder...
Dickson said he believes an important aspect of the show's story line was that juvenile criminal records are sealed. He said he thinks most juveniles with sealed records do not commit crimes again and go on to become productive citizens...